{"id":3462,"date":"2016-11-10T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2016-11-10T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:05:36","slug":"november-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"November 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 November 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a picture of a <strong>soldier fly<\/strong> from Gorge Park, November 8.&nbsp; Thanks to Rob Cannings for identifying it as  <strong><em>Exaireta spinigera<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>  This is an Australian species, and the first published record of its occurrence in North America was in a 2006 paper by J.E Swann, R.D. Kenner, Rob Cannings and Claudia Copley (J. Ent. Soc. BC,  <strong>103<\/strong>, December 2006).&nbsp; The paper cited about eight hitherto unidentified specimens all from the Victoria or Vancouver areas, dating from 2002. There had been an unpublished sighting of this species in a greenhouse in California in 1985.&nbsp; This   is a large soldier fly. Annie estimated its length from 10 to 12 mm.&nbsp; Other sources put it as high as 14 mm.&nbsp; Congratulations to Annie for this interesting record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"793\" originalwidth=\"949\" name=\"\" title=\"soldier Annie.jpg\" height=\"429.841095890411\" width=\"514.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/58250b4f89ac4.jpeg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Exaireta spinigera <\/em>(Dip.:&nbsp; Stratiomyidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a more familiar insect, <strong><em>Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong><strong>,  <\/strong>from the wall of the Elliott Building at UVic this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"1033\" name=\"\" title=\"Autographa cal.JPG\" height=\"597.5605033881898\" width=\"514.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/58250b4fdc3b2.jpeg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 November 10 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a picture of a soldier fly from Gorge Park, November 8.&nbsp; Thanks to Rob Cannings for identifying it as Exaireta spinigera.&nbsp; This is an Australian species, and the first published record of its occurrence in North America was in a 2006 paper by J.E Swann, R.D. Kenner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}